Released as Spirits Rejoice ESP (US) 1020, ESP Explosive (France) 538.111, Nippon Phonogram (Japan) BT5003, SMJ7492, SFX10713, Base Record (Italy) ESP 1020, Get Back (Italy) GET1006 (vinyl) and GET1006CD, Calibre (Netherlands) ESPCD1020, ESP (US) ESPCD 1020. Also included in The Complete Esp Disk Recordings, Abraxas (Italy) ESP1. In 2019 a 5 cassette box set was issued by Old Heaven Books in China, licensed by ESP, including Spritis Rejoice.Track 2, ‘Holy Family’, was also issued on an ESP-disk 45 rpm single (ESP 4506), as the B side to Ornette Coleman’s ‘Sadness’ from Town Hall, 1962 (ESP 1006).

From the sleevenotes

‘When I heard the news that Albert Ayler had died and was then shocked to discover that his death was not mentioned in the New York Times or the San Francisco Chronicle, much less the wire services, I thought of Anton Webern.’

Ralph J. Gleason (from `Perspectives: The Death Of Albert Ayler’ inserted in the Get Back CD release.)